Date: May 24th, 2018 1:52 PMAuthor: US Embassy In Jerusalem, Under Budg, Ahead of Sked(*)

because beating either djoker or big match stan in the final is the only way he could impressively win the coupe. he's gonna end up facing the twink queen of clay ttthiem in the final or some other scrub.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:52 PMAuthor: I Guess I Could Have Stayed Home and Baked Cookies

And some in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:52 PMAuthor: I Listen to Porn Podcasts

Takes them private and then bam, one day just shuts them all down. You could buy the three biggest for $5 billion. Then he devotes another $30 billion to tie up means of production for any upstart manufacturers.

Let's see a company defends against 1,000 pesky shitlawyers, each with his own peculiar demands and strategies.

I'm not saying the company wouldn't be able to defend. Hiring outside counsel isn't logistically difficult. But it would be a massive drain on company resources. Hell, the AAA itself might very well get administratively overwhelmed.

Maybe the situation is to pool the claims and split the pot, perhaps with the aid of litigation financing.

XO 2018 is mostly shitlawyers so I think people are pretty happy. I think most of the naysaying are jealous bros that were planning on poasting a brag thread about their 25k settlement from State Farm this afternoon.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:49 PMAuthor: US Embassy In Jerusalem, Under Budg, Ahead of Sked(*)

stan plays GGL in 1st round. he may not maek it

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:48 PMAuthor: wendall

We should let KJU blow it all up.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:48 PMAuthor: far-right swedish democrat

So strange.

Guess everyone needed to be kept in top physical condition until they were gassed.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:48 PMAuthor: Don Kihote

We can drive around the part of SD he lives in until we see a lime green Challenger then go to the first floor

"Harley is also building a new plant in Thailand. However the company maintains that the Bangkok plant is “separate and unrelated” to the decision to close the Kansas City plant, according to Michael Pflughoeft, a spokesman for Harley-Davidson."

Tim Primeaux has worked at the Harley-Davidson plant in Kansas City, Missouri, for 17 years. He was sure he was going to retire from the company.

That all changed when Harley-Davidson told its 800 employees in January that the plant will be closing next year. Operations will be shifted to the motorcycle manufacturer's facility in York, Pennsylvania.

“We did everything Harley-Davidson asked us to do,” said Primeaux, a welder. “To have it all blow up in your face is kind of disappointing.”

Days later, Harley-Davidson announced a dividend increase and a stock buyback plan to reward shareholders, repurchasing 15 million of its shares, valued at nearly $700 million.

Like other corporations, Harley-Davidson is benefiting this year from the tax cut law passed in 2017, which slashed the corporate rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. The company maintains that the dividend increase and stock buyback is unrelated to the tax savings.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:41 PMAuthor: stephen biko

180

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:41 PMAuthor: US Embassy In Jerusalem, Under Budg, Ahead of Sked(*)

lance and ostapenko just taking the stage now to be interviewed at the ceremony.

uuunnghhhhh, and ostapenko doesnt look bad either

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:41 PMAuthor: slimshadyman leading u down a subthread wasteland

don't be fatuous Jeffrey

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:41 PMAuthor: alzabo

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:41 PMAuthor: ~~(>\' \' )>

Yeah, I haven't been there much in the last year or two, so I'm not sure whether it's the same person.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:41 PMAuthor: Ironside-Approved

God smiles upon the great Doctor

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:41 PMAuthor: Don Kihote

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:40 PMAuthor: slimshadyman leading u down a subthread wasteland

while Elie Wiesel would have been in the hospital part of the murder death camp when it was liberated he was, in fact, given a choice by the SS: well, little bro, were about to be "liberated" by Russians so we're skipping out--you coming with us or enjoying Soviet liberation? Elie obviously said FUCK that, I'm not waiting for Russians, lead the way, Hans.

And that is who liberated Elie wiesel from Auschwitz: the SS.

Primo Levi did stay to be "liberated" by the Soviets but he admits it was just because he was too sick and weak (also a resident of the murder death camp hospital) and that most chose to go with Hans out of fear--fear of the red army, of course.

Brother, really enjoy your wife threading and related warnings (eg manipulating men by seeming helpless or assuming a false victim status). Have you ever given fuller advice on here re how the rest of us might avoid your fate, eg things to look for or avoid?

A North Carolina woman is facing charges after she forced a cable repairman to let her perform a sex act on him, police said.

Mildred Newsome, 47, of Fayetteville, was arrested Saturday after an investigation into the man’s accusations following an April 20 repair call at her apartment, Fayetteville Police Sgt. Shawn Strepay told The Post.

“The cable guy was there to work on her on box and while waiting for it to reset as he was sitting on a couch, she came over, grabbed his hand and forcefully placed his hand on her own breast,” Strepay said.

The unidentified technician in his 30s tried to resist Newsome’s “unwanted sexual advance,” but she persisted and performed oral sex on him, Strepay said.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:37 PMAuthor: slimshadyman leading u down a subthread wasteland

Will depend on the type of mushroom/batch. Some are much stronger than others. You Can usually start to feel the psychedelic effects with doses as low as 0.5 grams. I’d start a little higher than that the first time- somewhere around 1.5 grams

Woman Who Was Raped as a Teenager Is Awarded $1 Billion in Damages
May 23, 2018

From right, Hope Cheston, who was 14 when she was raped by a security guard at an apartment complex; her lawyer, L. Chris Stewart; and her mother, Renetta Cheston-Thornton.Stewart, Seay & Felton Trial Attorneys
Hope Cheston was 14 when, outside a friend’s birthday party in October 2012 in Jonesboro, Ga., an armed security guard at an apartment complex raped her on a picnic table.

For years, she thought she’d be forgotten like countless other sexual assault victims.

But on Tuesday, jurors in Clayton County, Ga., awarded her $1 billion in compensatory damages in a civil lawsuit against Crime Prevention Agency Inc., the security company that employed her rapist. Her lawyers believe it is, by far, the largest jury verdict ever awarded in the United States in a sexual assault case.

“My verdict basically shows if you stick with it and do what you need to do to get your justice, there’ll be a brighter end,” Ms. Cheston, now 20, said in an interview on Wednesday.

To be sure, Ms. Cheston — who gave The Times permission to use her name — almost certainly won’t end up a billionaire. The security company isn’t worth a billion dollars, and the amount of such a verdict could still be reduced by the judge.

But she and her lawyer both said the judgment offered a symbolic win for all sexual assault victims.

“A jury, from now on, will know there is no ceiling on the damages that rape causes to a woman,” her lawyer, L. Chris Stewart, said. “They literally thought a billion dollars was the value of a 14-year-old being raped in public.”

The civil lawsuit, filed by Ms. Cheston’s mother in 2015, accused the security company of negligence in their training and performance and of failing to keep a 14-year-old girl safe. A message for the chief executive of Crime Prevention Agency was not responded to on Wednesday.

The judge in the civil suit had already ruled the company was liable for negligence, and the jurors were brought in to determine the amount of the damages. They appeared to be touched by Ms. Cheston’s story; after the verdict was read, several of them came over to hug her, she said.

Her therapist instructed her not to discuss the events of the day she was raped, she said. But she decided to speak publicly about her attack now because, while she’s not “over it,” she now feels she’s “in a comfortable spot,” and hopes her story can bring comfort or guidance to other survivors.

Ms. Cheston’s whole personality changed after the attack, she said. She was “very shut off,” losing friends and straining her relationship with her mother. She stayed inside more. She still distrusts authority figures, especially male ones, and wouldn’t feel comfortable going to the police in an emergency.

“Knowing that just one encounter can change your life forever is terrifying,” she said.

She’s now a sophomore at Fort Valley State University, majoring in social work, and volunteers helping the homeless during the summer, she said. She intends to continue working toward getting her degree.

The Times could not immediately confirm whether it was the largest verdict in United States history, but three lawyers who weren’t involved in the case said they believed it to be true. Most cases are settled for far less, said Brad Edwards, a lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who specializes in victims of sexual abuse.

When coming up with a number, jurors consider factors like physical damage and mental anguish — concepts that are difficult to quantify, he said.

“If rape cases got tried and jurors understood the crippling effect that those types of events have on victims, you would see hundred-million-dollar verdicts rather frequently,” he said.

While Ms. Cheston’s case could be celebrated as a victory for sexual assault victims, there remains an enormous amount of obstacles for survivors in obtaining justice.

Doris Burke contributed research.

A version of this article appears in print on May 24, 2018, on Page A17 of the New York edition with the headline: Jury in Georgia Returns $1 Billion Judgment for the Victim in a Sexual Assault Case. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

Brandon Lamar Zachary
Clayton County PD
ATLANTA -- A Georgia jury has awarded an eye-popping $1 billion verdict against a security company after an apartment complex guard was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl. Hope Cheston was outside by some picnic tables with her boyfriend during a party in October 2012 when an armed security guard approached, attorney L. Chris Stewart told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The guard told the boyfriend not to move and raped Cheston, Stewart said.

The guard, identified in the lawsuit as Brandon Lamar Zachary, was convicted of statutory rape and is serving a 20-year prison sentence, according to online prison records.

Renatta Cheston-Thornton filed a lawsuit in March 2015 on behalf of her daughter, who was still a minor at the time. The jury on Tuesday handed down the verdict against Crime Prevention Agency, the security company that employed Zachary.

Zachary, who was 22 at the time of the rape, should never have been hired because he wasn't licensed to be an armed guard, Stewart said.

The judge had already determined the security company was liable, so the jury was only determining damages, Stewart said. After reading the verdict, Stewart said, jurors immediately left the jury box - without waiting for the judge's permission - to hug Cheston and her mother.

Attempts by the AP to reach the company for comment were unsuccessful. Online corporate registration information for Crime Prevention Agency shows that it was dissolved in 2016. The phone at a number listed online for Mario Watts, who's named on the corporate registration as the CEO and identified in the lawsuit as the company's registered agent, rang unanswered Wednesday.

The Associated Press does not generally identify victims of sexual assault, but Cheston, who's now 20, said she wanted her name used. A full-time college student who plans to spend her summer working with an organization in downtown Atlanta that helps homeless people, Cheston said she wants her story to provide strength for other sexual assault victims.

A lot of women who suffer sexual assault don't pursue justice, choosing instead to put it behind them, she said in a phone interview Wednesday.

"I feel like my case is just to show that you may not get it immediately, but you will get what you're worth," Cheston said. "This shows that people do care about the worth of a woman."

Stewart, who has tried a lot of sexual assault cases, said he was shocked when he heard the verdict. He said he had asked jurors to really determine the value of the pain caused by the rape.

"I was really proud of the jury because there is no basis in the legal world for how high a rape verdict can be," he said.

Verdicts in the tens of millions of dollars, or even hundreds of millions, are not uncommon, Jeff Dion, director of the National Crime Victim Bar Association said in an email. But he's never heard of a $1 billion verdict in a case with a single victim.

"This jury was clearly trying to send a message about bad conduct on the part of the company," Dion wrote.

It is more than likely that the security company will appeal the verdict, said Georgia State University law professor Jessica Gabel Cino. An appeals court would consider the reasonableness of the verdict and would also compare it to those awarded in similar cases to see if it's proportional, and it will likely be lowered, she said.

Cino agreed that this verdict was highly unusual but said the allegations in the case seemed especially egregious.

"The facts are just so in the plaintiff's favor when you put all of this together," she said. "I mean, it's really kind of serving up the right case on a platter to the jury."

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:33 PMAuthor: brave little poaster

He's revealed the true colors of libs like yourself

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:33 PMAuthor: shaker heights

shaker heights

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:33 PMAuthor: slimshadyman leading u down a subthread wasteland

“My verdict basically shows if you stick with it and do what you need to do to get your justice, there’ll be a brighter end"

C&P doesn't do justice, there are incredible charts
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-weakened-espn-became-consumed-by-politics-1527176425
John Skipper was furious.

One of his star anchors, Jemele Hill, had sent a tweet calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist.” Mr. Trump’s supporters called for her to be fired. Prominent black athletes defended the anchor, who is African-American.

Sitting in his office last September, Mr. Skipper, then ESPN’s president, lit into Ms. Hill, according to people familiar with the meeting. If I punish you, he told her, I’d open us up to protests and come off as racist. If I do nothing, that will fuel a narrative among conservatives—and a faction within ESPN—that the network had become too liberal.
Mr. Skipper chose to spare Ms. Hill. Mr. Trump weighed in on Twitter : “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers.”

The president’s tweet was hyperbolic, but it tapped into real anxiety at ESPN. What was the way forward for a company shaken to its foundations by the cord-cutting revolution?
Executives at the sports-media giant wanted to seek out new audiences by spicing up shows with opinionated analysis and debate, including on SportsCenter, its struggling news and highlights franchise.

But the amount and intensity of political expression generated sharp internal disagreements over whether ESPN was appropriately taking part in the broader national conversation, or whether top executives were encouraging a divisive company culture and giving too much leeway to hosts to promote left-leaning views, both on air and on social media.

Well before Ms. Hill’s tweet controversy, network icon Bob Ley had approached Mr. Skipper to say “there was a problem with balance internally,” people familiar with the matter said. Reached for comment, Mr. Ley said Mr. Skipper “was always extremely receptive.”
Linda Cohn, one of ESPN’s most prominent female anchors, in April 2017 gave a radio interview opining that ESPN’s politics were pushing away viewers and the network had overpaid for NBA rights. Mr. Skipper called to berate her on both counts, people familiar with the call said.
Why ESPN found itself torn up by the nation’s partisan politics traces back to its fundamental business challenge. Its status as cable TV’s most expensive channel had become a liability. As consumers grew fed up with their monthly cable prices, big cable distributors began offering discounted packages that didn’t include the network. Many consumers opted for those offers, while others cut the cord entirely, leading ESPN to shed 16 million subscribers over seven years.

At the same time, costs have ballooned, especially for vital live sports rights. Average annual payments tied to ESPN’s four biggest, long-term rights deals have more than doubled since 2013 to $4.7 billion. After years of growth, ESPN’s profit declined in the fiscal year that ended in September 2017, people familiar with its finances said. Declines have continued for the two ensuing quarters. ESPN has laid off some 600 employees over the past several years, including well-known hosts, though it has hired in areas such as technology and data.

ESPN’s relationship with majority-owner Walt Disney Co. DIS -0.74% grew tense as the once reliable profit engine turned into a public headache, people close to the situation said. A recent management shake-up gave Disney a chance to exert more control. Mr. Skipper departed suddenly in December, citing a substance-abuse issue. He later said someone from whom he bought cocaine had tried to extort him.

Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger installed as his replacement James Pitaro, Disney’s former consumer products and digital chief. Mr. Pitaro has promised to expand ESPN’s audience by targeting younger and casual fans, including with a new streaming service launched last month. He believes ESPN leaned too much into politics and that has influenced how the company was perceived, a person close to ESPN said. He has encouraged its programs to return to news and highlights and move away from opinionated commentary.
Mr. Pitaro has said that despite the political debates roiling the network last year, total day ratings were up 1% in 2017 from the previous year, in a largely bleak cable-TV landscape.

ESPN has struck new deals with some cable companies ensuring it gets a share of the monthly bills paid by at least 85% of their subscribers, regardless of how many sign up for packages that include ESPN, people familiar with the terms said. And it has added back 2.4 million subscribers thanks to growth in the past few years from new streaming cable TV services such as Hulu and Sling TV.
An ESPN spokesperson said the company’s momentum is strong.

Several network employees said the company has turned a corner. “When you know that there are dark days coming, it wears on folks collectively,” said ESPN’s late-night SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt, about morale in the past during rounds of layoffs. But more recently, under Mr. Pitaro, “there is a sense that those days are in the rearview,” he said.
Others are jaded after budget cuts and job losses, according to interviews with current and former staffers. “I think the morale there is probably as bad as I’ve seen it in my 22-year tenure,” said Jeannine Edwards, a longtime on-air reporter who retired in December.

Other workplace culture issues have surfaced. Some female staffers were aghast when the network launched a show last fall with Barstool Sports, even after some prominent hosts privately expressed concerns to executives that the outlet’s content was sexist and offensive, according to people familiar with the conversations. ESPN canceled the program after the outcry became public.

More recently, a producer filed a human resources complaint that ESPN wasn’t doing enough to promote women and minorities in production, and the network has interviewed several people who work on SportsCenter, according to people familiar with the situation. ESPN declined to comment on the investigation.
‘Flat-earthers’

Turmoil in the sports powerhouse’s business traces back to a spring day in 2014. Disney had invited about 100 analysts and investors to ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Conn., to hobnob with talent including tennis legend John McEnroe and show off ESPN’s new, $150-million-plus production facility.

In an unusual move, Disney gave long-term financial guidance for its cable networks division, largely powered by ESPN. It was rosy. ESPN’s research department presented data arguing cord-cutting was unlikely to become widespread, according to attendees.

“They were flat-earthers,” said one former ESPN executive.

At the same time, ESPN was spending aggressively. The company agreed to triple the fees it would pay the NBA, which it believes is growing in popularity. On the talent side, Mr. Skipper closely managed negotiations, desiring to beat back rivals like Fox Sports 1 and NBC Sports. Agents, former ESPN executives and hosts said that led him to overpay for several on-air personalities.

By 2015, it became clear the research staff was off base, as ESPN’s subscriber losses accelerated beyond internal projections. That August, Mr. Iger lowered the company’s earlier financial guidance, causing a stock selloff that lopped more than $20 billion off Disney’s market value that week.
Mr. Iger expressed reservations to Mr. Skipper about ESPN’s programming. SportsCenter was flooding the airwaves with many editions and he said it wasn’t distinguishing itself, a person familiar with the conversation said.

ESPN and Disney’s finance teams began to quarrel over budgets as the network was told to find cuts, people familiar with the matter said.

ESPN shaved spending, including by producing games remotely without announcers on site, but changing the culture was challenging. In 2015 the network spent lavishly to beef up its “SportsCenter on the Road” segments, including by pouring over $2 million into programming surrounding the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao boxing match, well above initial projections internally, people familiar with the situation said.

For some staffers that became a symbol of excess. Rob King, the executive in charge of SportsCenter at the time, appointed a senior producer to monitor budgets closely after the episode, the people said. A person close to ESPN disputed that spending on the fight overshot internal projections.

Some current and former employees said bloated contracts for talent weighed the company down and led to layoffs. ESPN is still paying many hosts, including former NFL reporter Ed Werder, who were on multiyear contracts when they were laid off more than a year ago.
A new morning talk show that launched last month, “Get Up,” costs far more than its predecessor, a SportsCenter morning edition, and is underperforming it in ratings. Payments to the show’s talent total some $15 million a year, with co-host Mike Greenberg making $6.5 million, people familiar with the costs said. Midlevel SportsCenter hosts tend to earn less than $500,000, one agent said, with better-known ones making up to $1 million and stars landing multimillion-dollar deals.

Mr. Pitaro told reporters in May that ESPN is monitoring the show daily, “trying to identify what’s working and what’s not.” He said the show’s ratings are up since its launch.
#BoycottESPN

There is broad agreement within ESPN that covering sports news means sometimes tackling hot topics like politics and race. The internal debate centered on the tonnage of such coverage, conduct on social media and whether ESPN as a company should take political stances.

Mr. Skipper sought to promote progressive social values, but often his moves came off as overtly political, staffers said. Under Mr. Skipper, ESPN awarded a prestigious “ESPY” award for courage to Michael Sam, the first openly gay athlete drafted into the NFL, and another to Caitlyn Jenner for coming out as a transgender woman.
When Mr. Trump disparaged Mexican immigrants during his candidacy, ESPN shifted a charity golf tournament from Trump National Golf Club to a different venue, a move ESPN’s public editor at the time said seemed “political.”

Conservative ESPN staffers grew frustrated by increased political commentary, including from ESPN executives during the presidential election, and worried about #BoycottESPN hashtags cropping up on Twitter. “Our viewers turned to us for sports,” said Jay Crawford, a longtime SportsCenter host who was laid off a year ago. “Realizing there’s never been a time in my lifetime where our country has been more divided, I saw no value in adding to that division.”

Mark Shapiro, who helped pioneer debate shows at ESPN and is now co-president of media conglomerate WME-IMG, said, “there was too much emphasis on talking heads and fiery opinions and less on breaking news and analysis.”

Tensions boiled over with the controversy over Ms. Hill in September. At their meeting, Mr. Skipper asked pointedly if Ms. Hill thought it fair to paint colleagues who voted for Donald Trump with a broad brush as white supremacists.

“No, but I do think that they have the benefit of privilege,” Ms. Hill responded.

Several ESPN employees later told Mr. Skipper that Ms. Hill should have been suspended for her Trump tweet because she violated the company’s social-media policy.

“To me it was clear-cut that these are areas to stay away from regarding racial topics, religion, sex orientation, politics,” said Tim Legler, an ESPN basketball analyst and 17-year company veteran.

Weeks later, Mr. Skipper suspended Ms. Hill when she used Twitter to urge a boycott of Dallas Cowboys advertisers after the team’s owner had suggested benching NFL players who staged social-justice protests during the national anthem. ESPN determined that was detrimental to the company, as ESPN shared some sponsors with the Cowboys, people familiar with the situation said. In February, Ms. Hill left SportsCenter to write for ESPN’s “The Undefeated” website.
Ms. Hill’s supporters said critics often conflated “politics” with hearing diverse viewpoints from women and people of color that Mr. Skipper promoted on air. “More minorities at ESPN with strong voices” has “evidently made some people bothered,” said radio jockey Dan Le Batard on his show a year ago.

On Wednesday, the NFL said it would require players to stand during the national anthem and would fine teams if they don’t comply. The decision was debated on ESPN shows like “First Take” and “SportsCenter,” including with references to President Trump’s distaste for such protests. Ms. Hill tweeted, “Me, trying to find any NFL owners with common sense.”
Tensions with Disney

Mr. Skipper’s messy exit in December rattled employees.

Though publicly Mr. Skipper seemed to have good relations with Disney’s top brass, tensions had built up over time. Early in his tenure—he took the top ESPN job in 2012—Mr. Skipper had missed a corporate plane ride with Disney’s Mr. Iger after a night of partying following the ESPY Awards, people familiar with the incident said. Mr. Iger wasn’t happy about being kept waiting. Disney later investigated to find out about Mr. Skipper’s comings and goings that night, including looking at his company phone records, the people said.

A few years later, Mr. Iger was frustrated when Mr. Skipper made comments in a Wall Street Journal article that seemingly contradicted his explanation for why ESPN was losing subscribers, people familiar with the situation said. Zenia Mucha, Disney’s chief communications officer, called Mr. Skipper and said ESPN should be restrained in its public statements at a time of rapid industry change—a stern message that ESPN executives including Mr. Skipper took as an effective gag order, some of the people said.

Mr. Iger later said to stock analysts on an earnings call he was misled by faulty data, and he agreed with Mr. Skipper’s explanation. Privately, Disney executives were upset that Mr. Skipper himself hadn’t reconciled the two explanations, one person familiar with Disney’s thinking said.

On the other side, Mr. Skipper was unsettled by rumors, including as recently as 2017, that Disney was considering spinning off its stake in ESPN. Mr. Skipper asked Mr. Iger if the rumors were true. Mr. Iger said they weren’t, a person familiar with the conversations said. Disney’s finance team studied the topic in recent years, though Disney’s board never seriously considered a spinoff, another person familiar with the matter said.
In March, Mr. Iger tapped Mr. Pitaro as ESPN’s new boss. Mr. Skipper had earlier resisted bringing in Mr. Pitaro as his No. 2, preferring to promote from inside ESPN, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Pitaro’s first major task is to build a streaming TV business. Years of delays and detours in this area frustrated Mr. Iger, who wanted the network to move faster, people close to the situation said. A streaming venture with the NBA was derailed because ESPN couldn’t settle on an approach, with some executives worrying about cannibalizing traditional TV revenue by courting cord-cutters.

Last August, Disney sped up its efforts, buying a controlling stake in Major League Baseball’s streaming arm Bamtech. The fruit of that deal is ESPN+. For $4.99 a month it offers live games and exclusive shows that don’t appear on ESPN’s TV networks.

ESPN is scouting competitive videogaming for the streaming service and on Wednesday signed a five-year, $1.5 billion deal with Ultimate Fighting Championship that will allow it to stream exclusive fights.

“They have some enormous challenges but they have by far the best brand in sports,” said WME-IMG’s Mr. Shapiro, whose company owns UFC.

"It looks like L'Vontaria didn't get that part of the spreadsheet done so... yeah if you could go back and finish the rest... yeah, all of that... The other parts, too. Just to double-check. She'll be in tomorrow I think. I'll call her to make sure."

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: stephen biko

“The omnibus was a major success and a major victory because we built into the baseline more defense spending and more border wall funding without having to make any concessions on issues like DACA or otherwise,” Miller continues.

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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: Non sequitur

NASA IS BRINGING CRYOSLEEP CHAMBERS OUT OF FICTION AND INTO SCIENCE Contributed by

Elizabeth Rayne
@quothravenrayne
May 23, 2018
You probably thought it was infinitely cool when Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo first emerged from their cryosleep chambers in Alien, but now that slice of sci-fi could become a reality in our lifetime.

NASA and SpaceWorks Enterprises are currently developing a stasis chamber (as opposed to individual pods like those in the movie) that could induce an extended state of torpor, or metabolic inactivity medically brought on by lowering body temperature to the point of mild hypothermia, that could allow astronauts to snooze for at least two weeks on end during longer missions. Also unlike Alien, in which everyone is temporarily in freeze-frame until the ship arrives at its destination, the crew would rotate cryosleep shifts so there is always someone conscious in case something goes awry where no one can here you scream.

SpaceWorks’ objective is to “place crew and passengers in a prolonged hypothermic state during space-mission transit phases (outbound and Earth-return) to significantly reduce the system mass, power, habitable volume, and medical challenges associated with long-duration space exploration,” as explained on their website.

The sci-fi technology behind the chamber is based on the emerging medical practice of Therapeutic Hypothermia (TH). Astronauts’ body temperatures would gradually be lowered to 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit and sedate them so they wouldn’t realize they were being frozen to sleep. While artificial hypothermia that nearly sends your metabolic rate into suspended animation might sound dangerous, it actually counteracts potential injury to bodily tissues that could otherwise result from hypoxia. Such a chamber could also prevent the harmful side effects of microgravity exposure and keep killer space radiation out.

While in this hypothermic sleep, astronauts would receive Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) intravenously through a catheter, and additional catheters would be used for waste disposal. Leave that to the imagination. NASA also notes benefits that go beyond the chamber itself. Launch costs and consumables would be significantly reduced, which would give the space agency a greater budget to use towards safety enhancements such as radiation shielding and increased mass margins. When your crew is inert, you can eliminate the need for a galley, cooking and eating supplies, exercise equipment and entertainment normally needed to keep someone alive and relatively sane in space. Think entertainment is unnecessary anyway? Just imagine being en route to Mars for months without Netflix.

Future Mars missions could be much more efficient with the advancement of a technology once thought impossible. NASA has already been sending lander after lander to the Red Planet, but it’s the human factor that makes a manned mission that much more complicated.

“Anytime you introduce humans [to a mission], it’s an order of magnitude or two more challenging,” said former NASA chief technologist Dr. Bobby Braun.

Unfortunately, science will probably not have figured out how to induce a state of suspended animation by the 2030s, so the first crews to Mars may have to deal with day after day of seeing nothing but the star-flecked blackness of space. At least they will probably have wifi.

(http://templocation/thread.php?thread_id=123)

Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: spaceporn2525

(http://templocation/thread.php?thread_id=123)

Date: May 24th, 2018 1:24 PMAuthor: ,.,.,.,..,.,.,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.

GC has you Pissing on the Fly to reduce costs

https://worksthatwork.com/1/urinal-fly

"As early as 1976 Joel Kreiss, an inventor from New Jersey, registered a US patent for a bull’s-eye target to improve aim, noting that ‘parents, janitors, and others responsible for this cleanliness have often despaired [sic] the human male sloppiness of failing to direct urine into the proper receptacles’."

i think it's more for ppl who watch obscure movies from the 60's or whatever that are hard to find anywhere else.

(http://templocation/thread.php?thread_id=123)

Date: May 24th, 2018 1:22 PMAuthor: TURD SANDWICH()

It's still $10/month right? I pay for it because it's cheap. If they went higher I wouldn't bother. Everything they offer is online for free (obviously illegally), half their shit that I loved has been removed from their catalog, and their original content is ok. Never understood the appeal of shit like Stranger Things or Orange is the New Nigger. Those shows are just slightly above mediocre.